…is about as accurate as calling a Yugo a fashionable and reliable automobile. Lugo managed to leave eight runners on base. That’s just Julio, not the entire team. And when you realize that he’s the leadoff batter, it means that for one of his at bats he didn’t even have the opportunity to bat with runners on.

Yesterday was a letdown game, no doubt about it. You sweep three games from the MFY, all in exciting fashion, and suddenly the Blue Jays and Tomo Ohka don’t look quite as menacing. At the same time, when the Sox trot out the bullpen arms of Pinata, Romero and Timlin, they don’t look very menacing either. We should just be glad that Timlin wasn’t killed by the line drive from Greg Zaun. That hit had Matt Clement/Bryce Florie written all over it.